kiolia

So it's been a long time, like a LONG time, since I've done anything with DA at all. It's actually kind of weird to have this account around, still. I think I want to keep it, but ... yeah. It's weird enough having samplings of my life from college forward floating around the interwebs; I can't quite imagine what it'd be like for people, say, 10-15 years younger than me to hit this point and find their entire lives have intersections with the online space here and there. Anyway: so I mentioned, like, ten years ago that I got an agent for a novel I wrote. It didn't sell, sadly, and it took a very, very long time to not sell. I wrote some other stuff. Eventually I wrote something in a very different vein that turned into a Middle-Grade sci-fi adventure story stuffed with all the stuff I loved to read when I was, say, 11 or so. Last year (yes, nine years later), my agent started shopping that and sold it almost immediately. And it's going to be a real book in real stores this

So yeah, I haven't really put anything up in forever, but I am in fact still alive and stopping by once in a while, even yet!So much has happened since then.  Houses!  Marriages!  Toddlerses!  Sheeshes!The only problem for me with DA is that almost all my creative output has been novelses for a while, now, plus some 3D printing projects I'm not ready to share.Bye for now!

Howdy all -- thanks for stopping by!I haven't put anything up in a while, and I'm sorry about that, but this state of affairs is likely to continue for a little while yet.I got an agent for my novel in January!It's a big deal for me, to be sure, and I'm ecstatic to be moving forward with the publishing process.  On the other hand, I'm also knee-deep in revisions right now, prepping the manuscript so my agent can start pitching it to publishers, and that's sort of like a second full-time job right now.  Work all day, get home, write until bedtime.  It just means some things are falling through the cracks for the time being, like changing th...